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Updates: Covid 2020-2021 Event Announcements

End of the Olympus Leather Contest?

From the desk of Vonn Tramel, Owner Olympus Leather

In May of 2019 Olympus Leather Hosted some fantastic folks in Chicago for Olympus Leather Weekend 2019. Among them was Laura Antoniou who was kind enough to take my money and give a keynote address of her choosing "whether I liked what she had to say or not". Little did she know, that I had been pondering some of the things she had to say.

Why weren't events focusing on artists and authors? Why were events SOOOOO focused on "just contests"? After all, titleholders "should" be doing SOMETHING...What were they actually doing? I'd been having trouble answering that very question for the 6 years I'd been involved with Olympus Leather beyond traveling, teaching (teaching what?), and raising money (for what and did I KNOW the charities were getting their money? and that raised more questions than I had time to ponder).

WELP....2020 gave me A LOT of time to think about whether or not a pageant was the way to continue. December 31, 2020, I made the decision and put out the word to Regional and Local Olympus Leather Producers that we were killing the pageant system as we knew it. I have ideas. Ideas for the way we pick future titleholders, the way we present our events, the way we utilize this family to promote our chosen charities, and the way we choose our charities. The whole thing needed a good scrub and re-work.

In February 2021 a group of individuals comprised of Olympus Leather Former Titleholders, close family members, and Producers sat in on the first committee meeting to hear what I had to say. Some liked it, some are still (as of May) not certain about the changes...I am CERTAIN that we'll come out the other side of this thing better for it.

I'm not ready to spill all the beans just yet, but we have chosen the date for the next event and I hope you'll join us for OLW 2021 Online. This won't be just another Zoom Conference. We'll have curated virtual museum displays and vendors marts where you can autonomously stroll through at your leisure, the Leather Quilt will be on virtual display as well. Performances on the main stage by our community for our community, a special table reading of Laura Antoniou's Killer short "A SPICE Oddity". NO Contest (this year) NO Classes, NO Auction. Chat roulette...and so much more is being planned! And it's all FREE. Registration will be opening soon.

Olympus Leather Weekend, FREE VIRTUAL JULY 24, 2021 Info updated weekly at OlympusLeather.com

Midwest Olympus Leather, Ohio - Next event TBD check midwestolympus.com for updates

Central Canada Olympus Leather, Ottawa, ON Canada - Next event TBD check centralcanadaolympus.com for updates

Great Plains Olympus Leather, Dallas, TX - Next event TBD check greatplainsolympus.com for updates.

Olympus Leather producers have agreed that all events should if not already postponed be monitored closely through September 2021.

Updates about all Olympus Leather events will be at the top of each of their website homepages.

Mr WCOL 2019 - Wilson Raiser

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Wilson Raiser was born in 1955 in Sacramento CA and raised in Rancho Cordova.

"I had no idea i was gay until i was out of college, i knew i was different but i matured very late.

i went to my first leather bar in 1982. i hated other gay bars i had been to, but when i walked in after 3 nights of sitting outside watching the hot MEN go in and out finally got the nerve to walk in i didn't have any leather not even a jacket....but i belonged there....made a lot of mistakes like wearing chaps that i bought with a knitted sweater and tennis shoes, and a hot leather man decided i needed training. He took me under his mentoring, but i pulled away because i was pursuiing an acting career and wanted nothing to distract from that. i was a professional actor for 30 + years and lived in 2 different worlds. I also didn't really like sex but but was turned on by the fetish. So i drifted for a long time but never connected. i had a lot of guilt about the way i felt, so for 30 years used meth to have sex, increase pain limits and please men. but no relationships....i was a functioning meth user and could go long period of times without it. but i had the gordion knot of sex and drugs wound so tight.

i finally realized i had to learn to have kinky leather sex and enjoy it without drugs, so i emersed back into the leather community and started learning. and i have thus far been successful not a long time but know the knot is broken...since moving to palm springs i now live a leather life, and have found a Dom that i lust love, so have a relationship for the first time in my life. but i see also a need for the leather community to accept more and be more inclusive it can only make us stronger to do great charity work and educate.

Vision The Leather community is comprised of an extremely diverse group of people Olympus Leather Titles are a platform for non-biased community visibility.		Mission The Olympus Leather Mr/Ms/Mx International & Regional Titles seek to advance equity in the leather community for all persons.